The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
Ken Kesey

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
Ken Kesey

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
Ken Kesey

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
Ken Kesey

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?
Ken Kesey

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
Ken Kesey

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Ken Kesey

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
Ken Kesey

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
Ken Kesey

To hell with facts! We need stories!
Ken Kesey

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
Ken Kesey

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Ken Kesey

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
Ken Kesey

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.
Ken Kesey

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Ken Kesey

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Ken Kesey